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Attention: The Potomac Review poetry contest is back! Entries will be accepted from October 1, 2009 - February 1, 2010. This year, the winning poem will be awarded $1,000 and publication in the upcoming issue of Potomac Review and 2nd place winner will receive $250. Keep checking the website for updates and complete submission guidelines.

Editor's Note

Potomac Review Issue #46 Fall 2009
Illchester Railroad Tunnel
by Brian Quillin

The submissions keep rolling in and we are managing to stay –relatively-caught up. The quality is so delightful that the maybe stack threatens to crack my pool table under its weight. Just Kidding-- but your poems and stories are great.

What we need now is some amazing Creative Nonfiction.  We are a great place for CNF this fall after we got our Notable in Best American Essays for Andrea Nolan’s “Edges."

Please scroll down for the month’s Hot Opener, “Whiskey and Water” by Mark Jacob.

Thank you for reading along on the Maybe Dialogue blog. We have another one in the works, so keep checking at www.potomacreview.blogspot.com or click on the link to the left.

Issue #46 is here. Order your copy now and join us as we hike the Appalachian Trail, belly dance at Sharm El Sheikh, drink tea in Kazakhstan and dig in an Italian vineyard. We are pleased and proud to offer poetry by Amy Holman, fiction by Myfanway Collins, Irene Keliher, Jeff Fearnside and many others. --

If you have any questions, email us at PotomacReviewEditor@montgomerycollege.edu.

Sincerely,

Julie Wakeman-Linn & the PR Team.


Hot Opener

 

Whiskey and Water
A short story by
Mark Jacob

Stewart went first, tipping off the boat dock like a book falling off a shelf. He was married to the lovely Christina, and felt luckier than most of his friends. Until he fell off that dock, just fell off it, on a mostly moonless, wet-aired November night in the Arkansas Ozarks.

Stew would have gone into the drink unnoticed, leaving the fishing guides to discover his limp and soggy body snagged downriver at first light, if not for Ben, who heard the splash.

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